Finding corners of box and crop Image

Question

Hey Guys I am working with numpy and opencv and want to get a image cropped by the contours of it. Here is one example what picture i want to crop by the edges,

And i want that the yellow line (rectangle) get cropped by python,

import numpy as np
import cv2
from PIL import Image


image = cv2.imread('4.png')
result = image.copy()
image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
lower = np.array([103, 131, 70])
upper = np.array([179, 234, 255])
mask = cv2.inRange(image, lower, upper)
result = cv2.bitwise_and(result, result, mask=mask)


print(image.shape)
cv2.imshow('mask', mask)
cv2.imshow('result', result)
cv2.waitKey()

Answer 1

You can opt for the LAB color space.

Now why use LAB color space over HSV?

• It's easier to segment the color of your choice by analyzing the chroma channels.
• There is no need to manually fix a range (unlike in HSV color space). Otsu threshold will help.

What is LAB color space?

• L-channel : represents brightness value in the image
• A-channel : represents variation of color between red and green
• B-channel : represents variation of color between blue and yellow

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After analyzing the a-channel and b-channel for the LAB converted image, we will make use of the a-channel since the box can be segmented easily here.

img = cv2.imread('image_path')
lab = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2LAB)
a_component = lab[:,:,1]

th = cv2.threshold(a_component,127,255,cv2.THRESH_BINARY+cv2.THRESH_OTSU)[1]
contours, hierarchy = cv2.findContours(th, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_NONE)
c = max(contours, key = cv2.contourArea)

black = np.zeros((img.shape[0], img.shape[1]), np.uint8)
mask = cv2.drawContours(black,[c],0,255, -1)

result = cv2.bitwise_and(result, result, mask=mask)

Hope this is the result you were expecting